they then held a historic election, voted in the new president, and now -- >> he's like a pharoah. >> reporter: morsi's office says the move is just temporary, to sideline remnants of the mubarak era and put egypt on the right track. the wise voices say it is far from clear who will win the showdown. but there are certainly more bloody days ahead on egypt's bumpy road to democracy. >> we said it often here, watching the arab spring take shape over the last, you know, year and a half year or so. the overthrow is the hard part -- the easy part. the hard part is building a real democracy, a last democracy to take its place. "l.a. times" and good news analysis, they wrote that proof egyptians are no longer willing to sep an autocratic society post-mubarak. >> that woman called him a pharaoh, and that was a very accurate description. protests where you saw alex marquardt's report, swelling to 200,000 protesters. using tear gas. and in the city of ma, yesterday two groups fought yesterday and 100 were injured. you have to believe that it's not going to stop. >> no, no. keep an eye on that t